"As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, ... more than 90 percent of the public is convinced that putting all 535 representatives of the United States Congress on the ground in Syria ... is the best course of action at this time," The Onion wrote.

The post already has over 606,000 Facebook likes and nearly 17,000 tweets.

The petition references The Onion article. It reads:

I, the undersigned, want the US Congress to go into Syria. Personally.

Well-known sooth-reporters at The Onion have already determined that there is enormous backing amongst the American population, and I hereby endorse that position.